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DAS
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Difference of Boxes Filters Revisited: Shadow Suppression and Efficient Character Segmentation
A robust segmentation is the most important part of an automatic character recognition system (e.g. document processing, license plate recognition etc.). In our contribution we pr...
Erik Rodner, Herbert Süße, Wolfgang Ort...
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
2009
13 years 6 months ago
Fast low-memory streaming MLS reconstruction of point-sampled surfaces
We present a simple and efficient method for reconstructing triangulated surfaces from massive oriented point sample datasets. The method combines streaming and parallelization, m...
Gianmauro Cuccuru, Enrico Gobbetti, Fabio Marton, ...
CLUSTER
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Minimizing the Network Overhead of Checkpointing in Cycle-harvesting Cluster Environments
Cycle-harvesting systems such as Condor have been developed to make desktop machines in a local area (which are often similar to clusters in hardware configuration) available as ...
Daniel Nurmi, John Brevik, Richard Wolski
PPSN
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Optimizing through Co-evolutionary Avalanches
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
PODC
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Tight bounds for clock synchronization
d Abstract] Christoph Lenzen Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory (TIK) ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland lenzen@tik.ee.ethz.ch Thomas Locher Computer Engineering and N...
Christoph Lenzen, Thomas Locher, Roger Wattenhofer